November 7, 2025 – NASA’s JPL, Harvard’s Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, and the International Astronomical Union (IAU) confirm the presence of a newly discovered comet.
Posted on X on November 7, 2025: https://x.com/forallcurious/status/1986802133287739504
C/2025 V1 (Borisov) is a comet discovered by Gennadiy Borisov, currently located in the constellation Virgo, approximately 108 million kilometers from Earth. It is expected to reach its closest approach to the Sun, or perihelion, on November 16, 2025.
IAU list of comets: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/LastCometObs.html
IAU details page: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25V40.html
Harvard telegram # 5631 about the comet discovery: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/RecentCBETs.html
Detailed telegram: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005600/CBET005631.txt
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